In September 2022, a distant dead star reawakened with a flash of light. The brilliant and powerful pulsing signal is about one billion light-years from Earth and was picked up by 15 different telescopes worldwide. It’s named AT2022tsd or the “Tasmanian devil”. Mysterious signals called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients (LFBOTS) are the suspected sourceContinue reading "‘Tasmanian devil’ rises from slumber with brilliant bursts of light"
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